Revolt of the ILX Brigade: New Post-Fahey Folk For PPL that post in the Takoma & Tompkin's Square Threads

one can hope! honestly i don't know how to do this. i have been playing for 3 months! i'm just really excited about it and not sure what to do once this round of lessons is over. i guess i am looking for good role models and i think my teacher is one, and your friend seems like one too. like i said, i can't do a ton, but i will take requests. it's not hard for me to record something on my phone and email it. i just feel weird even entering these conversations i guess. you all are nice people, fortunately.

sorry for the emo

Believe me, music is one of the few things that makes me feel good about people in general, and the folks I have met through music are pretty much the best (though of coures some total fucks out there as well). But yeah, I am very lucky to have gotten some encouragement along the way, and some of it from this very thread.

Also, not knowing is not really a barrier. You just gotta find one sound that works for you and then go from there. The drummer for Spacin' at the Paradise of Bachelors Hopscotch deal played just a floor tom, snare and like a ride symbol, no kick or anything. Sub Moe Tucker style, and it worked and was totally cool.

Isn't that what Low does?

And thank you for the kind words about my little audio file up there. I'm having issues putting myself out there. I think I'll have more confidence in my more established numbers but I still don't think they measure up to everyone else's submissions. Really appreciate the encouragement though! It means a lot.

Digging Colin L. Orchestra a lot. Thread really delivering...

Ahh cool Elvis, glad you like that. That album "Infinite Ease" is great in my opinion. The first song-suite and second song especially.

Low drums are especially minimal, but yeah pretty much the same setup.

ha, i kind of want my own lechera drum beat too. we could easily pull together a country kraut LP between all of us here. and then pass it off as some recently discovered 70s private press LP from bulgaria. ka-ching!

ok! i keep dreaming of the day when i can make my super heavy danger bird dreams come true but until then, we have technology. just send me a message and your request will be fulfilled within a few business days.

Country-kraut?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_msX9iHwg&feature=youtu.be

My default cosmic cowboy music is the Eagles' Journey of the Sorcerer

i know ILM is Wilco averse but but parts of A Ghost is Born are kinda roots-kraut

i did something a bit more jammy and psych...layed down the riff than came back and improv'd a solo over it, then did delay effect

anyway i lose it a bit in the middle but recover ok, lot different than other stuff i've done

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/pastoral-psych-jam

oh man that jj cale track is great.
pastoral psych jam sounds lovely, dude!

Was turned onto that Cale by Colin L. actually, can see where he is coming from with that track a bit.

And yeah UMS, I dig that, some really nice playing. I really like the repeating figure at the end.

The Arnold Dreyblatt / Megafaun collaboration that's just come out on Northern Spy seems like something that'd appeal to the weirdos on this thread. Strange and amazing avant banjo music:

https://soundcloud.com/northernspyrecs/01-home-hat-placement

Album is called APPALACHIAN EXCITATION btw.

Excellent drums too I must say.

new danny paul grody is really gorgeous

i keep wanting to avoid saying it's new agey but it IS and it's really good at it w.o. verging into things that i don't like about some windham hill stuff

but yeah huge step over his last album imo

i am skipping ahead because i am behind on this thread but:

I want to hear twang and spacey mountain strings married to a steady meditative krautrock drumming (bass bass bass snare bass bass bass snare bass bass bass snare)

― Evan, Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the sound of my dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Y00cVV97U

^relevant

Perfectly relevant, actually.

The Arnold Dreyblatt / Megafaun collaboration that's just come out on Northern Spy seems like something that'd appeal to the weirdos on this thread. Strange and amazing avant banjo music:

https://soundcloud.com/northernspyrecs/01-home-hat-placement

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, September 19, 2013 6:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i like this! some of the things i've been practicing have been military/march sounding like this, totally down with the plodding tempo!

Hooray! :) Rest of the album is a lot more droney tbh, whole thing ends up as a sort of cross between Pelt and TFUL282

oh that's good -- i was hoping for more drone. it reminds me of this time we went camping and the owner of the campsite liked to wake people up by practicing his bagpipes. drone + fresh air, doesn't get better than that! i'll check it out.

Fuck it.
Been avoiding this for a year.
I'm gonna suck it up and learn how to use finger picks.
Hate having a set back but it does sound so much clearer and more defined. All these pro awesome dudes must use them for a reason

Just grow your nails James Blackshaw style:

http://www.losgrilloscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/James-Blackshaw-Lynda-Smith.jpg

I know people aren't big on Calexico here but that track really does mostly deliver

I want to hear twang and spacey mountain strings married to a steady meditative krautrock drumming (bass bass bass snare bass bass bass snare bass bass bass snare)

― Evan, Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty strikingly.

Anyway, full of mistakes, but here is another thing I recorded! I'm much sloppier when I know I'm recording so please look past that. Trying my best to not fuck up and it keeps happening anyway. This is basically a medley of a few of my more established melodies. It's also a little farther from thread relevance.

https://soundcloud.com/factual-1/medley

Yeah I hate recording nerves press record &sometimes it's like I forgot how to play

Just grow your nails James Blackshaw style
man, i can't imagine having nails like that

Yeah I see dudes like that in YouTube lessons and it grosses me out

yeah seems like a step in some deeply antisocial direction. still, blackshaw is pretty freaking amazing, so it must be worth it.

Partly I associate long nails men with kinda skeezy coke nail vibe which isn't really fair but I can't help it

it kinda grosses me out a little bit, but i'm not in the business of telling people what to do with their fingernails since i don't want them to tell me what to do with mine

William Tyler: really long nails. Seemingly an awesome guy, so creepiness not really a factoy. Still, I have an aversion and couldn't do it myself, but then again I am not playing fingerstyle all the time, just to mix it up. Picks feel weird to me to though, so good luck with that UMS. The good playes seem to to one or the other (nails/picks), though Chasny doesn't.

Wow. So many typos in one post. New record maybe. I am getting off the computer for a while, yikes. Point made I guess. "The good players seem to use one or the other" etc. Have a nice day everyone.

I think I got a lot better at speed/precision when I switched to fingerpicks. It took a few weeks to really get used to but overall worth it, I think. Once you get used to them you can always go back to bare fingers whenever you want, which I sometimes do, as I prefer the tone with bare fingers honestly. You might lose your calluses. And yes W. Tyler has weird long nails.

Yeah I don't have any good reason to dislike the long nails. But yeah practiced today and went OK. Just starting over with a Half Leonard instruction book to ramp up.

Man playing in standard tuning suuucks feels so awkward now

The Arnold Dreyblatt / Megafaun collaboration that's just come out on Northern Spy seems like something that'd appeal to the weirdos on this thread. Strange and amazing avant banjo music:

https://soundcloud.com/northernspyrecs/01-home-hat-placement

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, September 19, 2013 6:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

This album is great. Thanks for this! Is Megafaun any good? I've shied away because they seem to be tangentially related to Bon Iver. BUT between this and Phil Cook's pretty killer solo guitar LP, maybe I should check them out.

I really like Megafaun a lot, but I'm also the guy here who won't shut up about Calexico (periodically).

They were great live by the way. They like to experiment, and I think they mix that pretty well with their more straightforward pretty stuff.

hey do any of you (guitar players) take requests? don't feel like you have to answer that right away...just think about it.

...what sort of requests?

Guitar playing requests (nothing untoward!)

what sort of guitar playing are you looking to request?

Freebird!

ok... i'm playing freebird. wow i'm really on fire tonight, hitting all the notes.

i can play a good array of open tuning/fahey kinda standards, i dunno if you're looking for something specific but i'd be happy to give it a go. feel free to pm or email me

will do!
i'll explain elsewhere, this probably isn't the place for requests anyway